Best DATAVERSITY Podcasts (2025)

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My Career in Data Season 3 Episode 22: Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College 22:06

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Susan Ray, Associate Professor of English, Delaware County Community College. She never imagined she'd become invested in data as an English pr…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: enVista’s Nathan Bensch Talks Dataverse, Governance, and Agent Design 16:25

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Key Takeaways Agents take center stage: Bensch says last year’s event was focused on Copilot basics and early-stage AI adoption, but 2025 is the year of agents. Organizations are asking how to make agents work securely, how to tap into data through offerings like Work IQ and MCP servers, and how to build governance that actually holds up. Attendees…

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Microsoft Foundry Adds Mistral Large 3 to Azure AI Arsenal 2:54

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In today's Cloud Wars Agent & Copilot Minute, I explore Microsoft's addition of Mistral Large 3 to its Foundry platform and why it's a major win for developers seeking open, enterprise-ready AI models. Highlights 00:11 —Microsoft Foundry is a platform from Microsoft, designed for building, customizing, and deploying GenAI applications and agents. I…

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PwC and Oracle Team Up to Turn Cloud Savings Into AI Budget 36:18

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Sales, and Matt Hobbs, Cloud Engineering and Data Analytics Platform Leader and Partner at PwC US. Together, they explore how companies can stop overpaying for cloud and instead fund AI innovation by shifting spend from legacy and suboptimal cloud deployments into modern architectures, multi-cloud strategies, and enterprise-grade AI capabilities th…

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Google Cloud's Will Grannis on Culture, Metrics, and Winning the AI Economy 33:08

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Bob Evans sits down with Will Grannis, Chief Technology Officer at Google Cloud, to unpack how AI is reshaping both technology stacks and corporate culture. They explore Google Cloud’s Gemini Enterprise platform, the newly upgraded Gemini 3 models, and the rise of agentic AI. Along the way, Will shares customer stories from industries like finance,…

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Google Cloud CTO Will Grannis Reveals the 'Big Unlock' for AI 4:40

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Welcome to the Cloud Wars Minute — your daily cloud news and commentary show. Each episode provides insights and perspectives around the “reimagination machine” that is the cloud. In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss why culture, mindset, and leadership matter just as much as technology in driving AI transformation, based off my conversation wit…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Paragon Films' Kenny Mullican Shares Event Expectations, Adapting To a New 'AI Reality' 13:09

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Key Takeaways Mullican expresses the value of the event, and given that AI and Copilot have matured, the sessions at the 2025 AI Agent & Copilot Summit NA will shift from a focus on experimentation to practical applications that deliver real impact. As a returning Programming Committee Board member, Mullican highlights the "unprecedented number of …

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The Race to the Quantum Internet: IBM and Cisco Reveal Ambitious Network Blueprint 2:59

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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I look at how IBM and Cisco are teaming up to pioneer long-distance quantum networks. Highlights 00:03 — Although not the only company invested in the development of quantum computing, IBM is certainly considered the most active. The company has the highest number of patents, a clear road map for fault tolerant quantum…

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Palantir vs. ServiceNow: AI Platform Position + Who Is 'Defining Soft.Co?' 5:03

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Highlights 00:24 — I think we’re seeing some very interesting competitive battling between Palantir and ServiceNow, head to head, emerging over two categories. One, this AI platform position that they’re both talking about relentlessly as sort of the core of their strategic value. And secondly, they’re both on this kick now about who is the definin…

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Marc Benioff and Salesforce Get Growth Mojo Back 4:54

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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I review the remarks and insights from CEO Marc Benioff and Salesforce from the recent Q3 earnings call. Highlights 00:20 — After an approximately three-year hiatus, CEO Marc Benioff and Salesforce demonstrated their growth mojo through the Q3 numbers. While some of the numbers aren't quite as robust as they were in Sa…

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Palantir Disruption: New Customer Raises AI Spending by 8X!! 4:31

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss how Palantir’s latest customer wins reveal a shift from point solutions to end-to-end AI strategies. Highlights 00:19 — Palantir's got a customer that, very shortly after signing a deal for a fairly limited AI engagement, said it wanted to go enterprise-wide with an investment that's up 8x over what the origi…

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Microsoft Copilot Exits WhatsApp: What Users Need to Know 1:47

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In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I unpack why Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available on WhatsApp starting January 15 and what users should do next. Highlights 00:03 — Starting January 15, Microsoft Copilot will no longer be available to users via WhatsApp. This feature has been offered since 2024, but due to changes in WhatsAp…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Anywhere Real Estate's Mary McAnally on Diverse Perspectives, Accelerating the AI Learning Curve 8:54

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Key Takeaways Community involvement: Mary is a member of the programming committee board this year and will be attending the AI Agent & Copilot Summit, taking place from March 17th to 19th in San Diego, California. Working in the real estate industry, Mary acknowledges that, like individuals in all industries, there's a lot of AI transformations ha…

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Inside Google Cloud’s Human-Centered AI Revolution | Cloud Wars Live 21:36

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In this Cloud Wars Live podcast, Bob Evans sits down with Hayete Gallot, President, Google Cloud Customer Experience, to explore how Google Cloud is helping enterprises move from AI experimentation to true business transformation. Gallot describes how her organization unifies engineering, consulting, partners, and learning to accelerate time-to-val…

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Salesforce Completes Informatica Acquisition, Boosting Its Agentic AI Foundation 2:26

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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how Salesforce’s acquisition of Informatica strengthens its foundation for delivering trustworthy, agentic AI. Highlights 00:04 — A few years back, when I was covering the cloud data management firm Informatica on a regular basis, the rumor mill was rife with speculation that the company was set to be acquire…

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My Career in Data Season 3 Episode 21: Ariel Utnik, CEO, Seemore Data 39:19

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Ariel Utnik, CEO, Seemore Data. He never knew what he wanted to be at six years old, or even at twenty-six, and honestly admits he still doesn'…

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Workday Q3 Trifecta: 15% Rev. Growth, 17% Total RPO Growth, Strong AI Uptake 4:26

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I analyze why Workday’s $26B RPO signals strong future momentum in the face of SAP and Oracle. Highlights 00:15 — Very nice Q3 that Workday recently finished here. Great revenue growth for the quarter ended October 31 — up 15% to about $2.25 billion. 17% growth for its total RPO, to about $8.2 billion. It's been cranki…

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How SAP Is Reimagining Enterprise AI 21:54

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In this special Cloud Wars report, Bob Evans sits down with Michael Ameling, President and Chief Product Officer of SAP Business Technology Platform, for a deep dive into how SAP is helping customers navigate the fast-moving AI Era. Ameling and Evans discuss how SAP’s Business Data Cloud, partnerships with Snowflake and Databricks, HANA Cloud innov…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: VisualSP's Asif Rehmani Details Copilot Training Resources to Boost ROI 11:24

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Information access: While many have Copilot licenses, usage is low beyond basic tasks like email and meeting summaries. The main challenge with adoption is providing guidance within apps like PowerPoint, Excel, Dynamics, and Word so users can access help exactly when they need it. This is something Rehmani's company, VisualSP, and his training plat…

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A Thanksgiving Message: Peace, Gratitude, and What Matters Most 2:31

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My Career in Data Season 3 Episode 20: Niruta Talwekar, Data Engineer, Meta 26:54

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Niruta Talwekar, Data Engineer at Meta. At six years old, she dreamed of becoming a university professor, like her father, inspired by the prof…

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Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA Forge AI Super-Alliance Poised to Shape the Next Era of Innovation 2:39

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In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I break down why this Microsoft-Anthropic-NVIDIA trio, spotlighted at Microsoft Ignite, may define the next phase of the AI Revolution. Highlights 00:19 — Today, I want focus on a particularly significant partnership involving not one but three partners, collaborating in multiple ways across various f…

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The Cybersecurity blind spot in Healthcare: Unprotected medical and connected devices 35:46

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(0:07 - 0:55) Welcome to today's episode, where we dive into one of the most pressing and often overlooked challenges in healthcare. Cybersecurity risks stemming from unmonitored and unprotected network-connected medical and other devices. Hospitals today rely on thousands of connected devices, but 87% of them go unmonitored. And with over 53% foun…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: John Accardi on Technology Evolutions, Getting Started with AI 11:31

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Key Takeaways Career journey and Microsoft involvement: While he's been in the industry for a long time, Accardi recounts being in the Microsoft arena for about 14 to 15 years. "My entire career has been around technology...and I have familiarity with various platforms," he notes. He has filled a range of roles, including sales leadership, marketin…

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Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's Crowning Achievement 5:10

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I break down why Google Cloud’s new Gemini Enterprise may be Thomas Kurian’s most ambitious and most defining move yet. Highlights 00:14 — One of the fastest-growing companies in the Cloud Wars Top 10 — and one that has been the most innovative, successful, and is definitely making a run at the number one spot — is Goo…

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Microsoft Ignite: Renowned Futurists Map Out the Next Era of Enterprise AI Success 3:58

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In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I look at how screen-aware Copilots, task-based agents, and multimodal interfaces are reshaping enterprise work — and why identity, permissions, and access guardrails now matter more than ever. Highlights 00:30 — Two experts, Brian Madden, Vice President and Field Technology Officer and Futurist at Ci…

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Hottest in Cloud/AI: Palantir #1, Google Cloud #2, Oracle #3 5:20

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I reveal how Palantir leapfrogged the competition with 63% cloud growth, shaking up the Cloud Wars Top 10. Highlights 00:14 — Periodically, I do an update on what I call the Cloud Wars Growth Chart. The latest list shows that Palantir — new to the Cloud Wars Top 10 — is number one in fastest growth, by a long shot. Goo…

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Workday's Acquisition of Sana Delivers AI-Enabled Knowledge Access to Customers 3:05

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss Workday's acquisition of the enterprise knowledge and learning platform provider Sana, and what it means for customers. Highlights 0:05 — Now,the understanding of the capabilities of LLMs has seeped from discussions among in-the-know business leaders into the general public. Personally, I don't know anyone wh…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Stoneridge Software's Eric Newell Shares Community Summit Takeaways, Future of AI Adoption 4:18

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In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert is joined by Eric Newell, CEO, Stoneridge Software, while on-site at Community Summit North America 2025, which took place October 19-23. Newell shares his takeaways from the conference, and what he expects the future of AI adoption to look like over the next 12-18 months. Key Takeaway…

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My Career in Data Season 3 Episode 19: Ronen Schwartz, CEO, K2view 29:14

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Ronen Schwartz, CEO, K2view. His mother joked that he tried to manage his parents and sister from a very young age, but his real dream was to b…

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Elevaite365 Test Automation Turns Testing into a Strategic Advantage 8:30

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In today's podcast, John Siefert sits down with Magnus Perri, CEO, elevaite365 Test Automation, and Michael Catterall, Product Lead, elevaite365 Test Automation, to unpack how AI is redefining testing in Dynamics 365 projects. They discuss why manual testing overwhelms business users, how elevaite365 Test Automation's platform automates and adapts …

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SAP + Snowflake: Promiscuous Partnership Powerful + Promising 5:17

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore how tech rivals are becoming collaborators to better serve customer innovation. Highlights 00:43 — I call SAP and Snowflake's recent announcement a promiscuous partnership that's powerful and promising. I'll try not to trip over too many more P’s here, but I think the point of this is we're seeing the promisc…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: LS Retail's Jeff Miller on Global Deployments, AI Integration, Client Collaboration 15:53

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In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert hosts Jeff Miller, Vice President, Americas, LS Retail, for a discussion on LS Retail's position in its industry, how it supports organizations across the globe, integrating AI, and upcoming projects. Key Takeaways About the company: LS Retail has been a leader in its industry from an …

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Inside Palantir: Wildly Different Value Prop for Customers — Growth! 5:16

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I take you inside Palantir’s wildly different approach to driving customer growth. Highlights 00:14 — One of the companies causing a lot of disruption within the Cloud Wars Top 10 companies is Palantir, which recently reported its Q3 revenue up 63% to $1.12 billion, just growing incredibly fast and putting together a r…

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Palantir Q3 Reveals New Deal Sizes, Shorter Timelines, Bigger Ambition | Cloud Wars Live 28:35

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In this special episode of Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans speaks with Chad Wahlquist, Architect at Palantir, about the company’s explosive Q3 growth and the accelerating adoption of its AI Platform (AIP). They explore how AIP serves as an operating system for the enterprise, enabling customers to achieve global optimization, faster ROI, and model flexi…

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New Copilot Search Experience Boosts Transparency with Source Links and Dropdown Navigation 2:38

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In today's Cloud Wars Agent and Copilot Minute, I look at how Copilot’s smarter search experience supports users, respects content creators, and strengthens the web. Highlights 00:12 — Microsoft has announced that it's bringing the best of AI search to Copilot, along with a dedicated Copilot search experience. In practice, this means that responses…

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Project Operations with Joe Griffin 50:32

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Joe Griffin Episode 155: Markus Erlandsson and Malin Martnes chatted with Joe Griffin from proMX UK, about Project Operations and what you can do with the application. Joe starts by giving us an introduction and then digs into the integrations with other Dynamics applications, such as Sales and Finance. Joe also describes the history from Project S…

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AI Agent & Copilot Podcast: Stijn Geeroms on Cegeka as Microsoft's Supply Chain Partner of the Year 10:13

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In this episode of the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast, John Siefert is joined by Stijn Geeroms, Vice President Business Solutions, Cegeka, for a conversation on Cegeka being named Microsoft's Partner of the Year for supply chain. Key Takeaways About the company: Cegeka is a global IT company headquartered in Belgium. It has around 10,000 professionals …

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Larry Ellison: Oracle Multicloud Rev. +1,529% 5:07

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I take a look at how Oracle’s bold multicloud partnerships — with Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud. Highlights 00:15 — One of the ways in which Oracle has been distinguishing itself is not just with its new technology, but with interesting go-to-market approaches. Now, Ellison recently said that while Oracle's multiclo…

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AWS Infrastructure to Power OpenAI’s AI Workloads Under $38 Billion Agreement 2:42

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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I delve into OpenAI’s $38 billion partnership with AWS, giving Amazon a major role in powering and scaling OpenAI’s AI workloads. Highlights 0:03 — OpenAI and AWS have announced a multi‑year strategic partnership valued at $38 billion for AWS. This deal will enable AWS to provide the infrastructure necessary to support…

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My Career in Data Season 3 Episode 18: Shree Periakaruppan, Head of Data Engineering and Analytics, American College of Radiology 25:54

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Welcome back to an all new season of My Career in Data – a DATAVERSITY Talks podcast where we sit down with professionals to discuss how they have built their careers around data. This episode we speak with Shree Periakaruppan, Head of Data Engineering and Analytics at the American College of Radiology. At ten years old, she walked into her father’…

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Google Cloud Racking Up $1 Billion Deals Powered by A.I. 5:03

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I dig into why Google Cloud’s momentum in AI-centric deals is reshaping the entire cloud landscape. Highlights 00:30 — A few major things became evident from Google Cloud's third-quarter results from late last month. One, if you look at the giant deals Google Cloud signed in the first three quarters of 2025, it inked m…

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Engineering the Healthcare Dataverse: From data chaos to clear insights 24:02

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Healthcare data is exploding, from clinical records to wearables, and with it comes both opportunity and chaos. In this episode, experts Abhishek Wagle and Anand Rao explore the Healthcare Dataverse, a digital ecosystem where data engineering, AI, and cloud technologies converge to improve care, reduce costs, and drive health equity. Key Highlights…

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'King of the Cloud' AWS Falling Farther Behind Google, Microsoft, + Oracle 6:04

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I call out AWS’s slowdown in both innovation and momentum, as the rest of the hyperscalers redefine the future of cloud. Highlights 00:15 — Now it's been interesting here as we watch the four hyperscalers recently, Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle. We hear that cliche about a rising tide lifts all boats. And I …

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Oracle’s Fusion and NetSuite Customers Gain an AI Advantage | Cloud Wars Live 12:27

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In this episode of Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans speaks with T.K. Anand, Executive Vice President at Oracle, during Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. The discussion centers on Oracle’s new AI Data Platform, a major initiative designed to help customers harness their own data to drive AI transformation. Anand outlines how Oracle’s open, unified approach to…

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Workday Launches Custom AI Model Library for Contract Intelligence 2:04

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I explore Workday’s latest move to deepen AI’s role in enterprise operations. Highlights 00:03 — Workday has announced its new Custom AI Model Library for the Workday Contract Intelligence Agent, powered by Evisort. The library includes over 120 pre-built AI models designed to identify critical clauses, risks, line ite…

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Oracle Launches AI-Native Database 26ai to Power Enterprise AI Foundations | Cloud Wars Live 24:59

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Hasan Rizvi, EVP, Database Engineering, Oracle, talks to Bob Evans in this latest episode of Cloud Wars Live. They explore the launch of Oracle AI Database 26ai, the Autonomous AI Lakehouse, and breakthroughs in multi-cloud deployment. Rizvi also discusses vector search, agentic AI, and how Oracle is simplifying complex architectures for the AI era…

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Palantir Q3 Blowout: Extraordinary Numbers and CEO Perspectives 5:31

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I spotlight Palantir’s stunning 63% revenue surge and its defiant, rule-breaking vision for the AI Era. Highlights 00:30 — Palantir, earlier this week, reported its Q3 numbers, and they were absolutely extraordinary. I thought the only thing that matched the blowout numbers that Palantir had was the perspective and phi…

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Mahesh Thiagarajan on Oracle Cloud Strategy and Innovation | Cloud Wars Live 17:09

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In today's Cloud Wars Live, Mahesh Thiagarajan, EVP, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, speaks with Bob Evans about Oracle’s bold strategy to lead in the AI infrastructure race. He details how Oracle is scaling zeta-level compute, launching a 1.5 gigawatt GPU campus, and engineering full-stack solutions that combine bare-metal hardware, custom networking…

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Windows Copilot Now Responds to Text Prompts in Vision Feature Update 2:02

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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I take a look at Microsoft’s newest Copilot feature that lets users type to Vision instead of relying solely on voice. Highlights 00:10 — Microsoft has rolled out a new update for the Microsoft Copilot app on Windows for Windows Insiders. This update allows users to interact with Copilot Vision using text inputs, and C…